Characters such as -
, +
etc are not parsed the same way as alphanumeric ASCII characters by Python's readline based cmd module. This seems to be linux specific issue only, as it seems to work as expected on Mac OS.
Sample code
import cmd
class Test(cmd.Cmd):
def do_abc(self, line):
print line
def complete_abc(self, text, line, begidx, endidx):
return [i for i in ['-xxx', '-yyy', '-zzz'] if i.startswith(text)]
try:
import readline
except ImportError:
print "Module readline not available."
else:
import rlcompleter
if 'libedit' in readline.__doc__:
readline.parse_and_bind("bind ^I rl_complete")
else:
readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
Test().cmdloop()
Expected behavior on Mac OS
(Cmd) abc <TAB>
abc
(Cmd) abc -<TAB>
-xxx -yyy -zzz
(Cmd) abc -x<TAB>
(Cmd) abc -xxx
Incorrect behavior on Linux
(Cmd) abc <TAB>
abc
(Cmd) abc -x<TAB>
<Nothing>
(Cmd) abc -<TAB>
(Cmd) abc --<TAB>
(Cmd) abc ---<TAB>
(Cmd) abc ----
I tried adding -
to cmd.Cmd.identchars, but it didn't help.
cmd.Cmd.identchars = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789_-'
Why is there a difference in readline parsing between Mac OS and Linux even though both use GNU readline:
Mac OS:
>>> readline.__doc__
'Importing this module enables command line editing using GNU readline.'
Linux:
>>> readline.__doc__
'Importing this module enables command line editing using GNU readline.'
Thanks!
On linux, the readline
module considers -
a delimiter for tab completion. That is, after a -
is encountered a fresh completion will be tried.
The solution to your problem is the remove -
from the set of characters used by readline as delimiters.
eg.
old_delims = readline.get_completer_delims()
readline.set_completer_delims(old_delims.replace('-', ''))
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